Center Valley Woman's Shopping Spree Filled Her Freezer With Meats

March 14, 1985|The Morning Call

Cindy Musselman of East Hopewell Road, Center Valley, has a freezer full of hams, turkeys, seafoods and steaks, thanks to the $100 shopping spree that she won in the 5th annual Neighbors Recipe Contest.

Mrs. Musselman was the winner in the Emmaus-East Penn Neighbors zone.

"It's the first time I ever won anything," said the happy 30 year-old housewife and mother of two. She and her husband Jay decided to splurge mostly on fancy meats that they normally don't buy.

She also picked up some other things that they normally don't buy, like microwave popcorn.

She made a list of what she wanted and then, with calculator in hand, she leisurely pushed her cart around the isles of the Coopersburg IGA last Thursday evening.

She said she decided to spree at the IGA because she thinks the store's "normal prices are the cheapest around."

With the help of some coupons, her bill totaled $100.38. She paid the 38 cents.

Mrs. Musselman, who likes to cook from scratch, said she figures shegrabbed enough meats to last for "quite a few meals."

She said she has competed in all the previous Neighbors recipe contests. This time she sent in three recipes.

Her winning recipe was for a Vanilla Crumb Pie that she said was really her mother-in-law's recipe.

"It's a shoo-fly type of pie that my husband loves. So now it's my favorite pie because I won on it," she laughed.

She said she intends to keep entering the Neighbors recipe contests. "I have nothing to lose."

Kathy Hoch, Call-Chronicle advertising sales coordinator, said there were well over 1,000 entries in Neighbors' Meals in Minutes recipe contest. Desserts, she said, were the most popular category.

This year's theme, which called for recipes that go from the preparation stage to the dinner table in less than an hour, was considered particularly appropriate in light of the fact that many women today are employed and need easy-to-execute recipes that don't stint on taste.

Hoch said of the annual contest: "It's always very popular. What made this a little unique was the fact that we required them to give us something that can be prepared quickly."

Winner were chosen through a random drawing. They shopped at stores of their choice that advertise with the Call-Chronicle.